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BBC Director of Nations Rhodri Talfan Davies Named Interim Director-General
Rhodri Talfan Davies, BBC Director of Nations since 2021, will lead the corporation temporarily amid ongoing leadership search and a $10 billion defamation lawsuit.
- Rhodri Talfan Davies has been confirmed as interim director-general and will join the BBC board from February 1 as an executive director before assuming the role on April 3.
- Following the Panorama edit controversy, a leaked memo in late 2025 prompted the resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, with Donald Trump suing the BBC for at least $10 billion.
- Davies's remit includes the Across The UK strategy and generative AI work, and as of July 2025, he was paid between 305000 and 309999.
- Rhuanedd Richards will take on the nations director role in the interim while Rhodri Talfan Davies serves as interim Director-General, and the BBC recruitment process for a permanent Director-General is under way.
- BBC chair Samir Shah praised Rhodri Talfan Davies as an "outstanding leader" and said the corporation must continue licence fee and royal charter talks while responding to the Government's Green Paper.
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The British broadcaster BBC today appointed Rhodri Talfan Davies as interim director general. He will take over in April from Tim Davie, who resigned following a controversy over a documentary that falsified a 2021 speech by US President Donald Trump.
The BBC announced on Wednesday that it had appointed an interim general manager to replace Tim Davie, who resigned after the controversy sparked by a misleading montage of Donald Trump's speech and will leave office on 2 April. ...
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